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A42749	The post-boy rob'd of his mail, or, The pacquet broke open consisting of five hundred letters to persons of several qualities and conditions, with observations upon each letter / publish'd by a gentleman concern'd in the frolick.	Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Pallavicino, Ferrante, 1615-1644.	1692 (1692)	Wing G735A; ESTC R30411	212,135	446

by comparing me with other Women you judge me a Dissembler in my Affection toward ye which denies me the Felicity of that mutual Exchange from your self which the Ardor of my Love requires Good God! Preserve me Heav'n from so great Misfortune I will sooner not only to be a Woman but to be at all then prejudice my desire of being belov'd If I cannot separate from the Degree of Woman the Imagination of Frauds and Treachery I will deprive my self Life for ever to abandon those Conditions by which being made an unfortunate Lover I shall become more miserable then the Damned Beware my only Joy of giving way to Ingratitude or Cruelty under pretence of such a Belief otherwise unjust while in the Purity of a faithful Mind common Failings may easily be discover'd to be quite abolish'd Your Countenance may convince you that Treacheries are far remote from her that adores ye to sacrilegious when they shall offend the Divinity of that fair Person for whose sake that Woman must be without a Soul that presumes to live and yet despise you By how much the less frequent by so much the more valuable is the Love of a Woman proportionable to the Objects that enhaunce the Price for want of Number Whoever loves can never fancy a Beauty which cannot be belov'd I deem you unapt to conceive the Vehemency of my Passions which by labouring in the Contemplation of your Countenance turn about my Soul to admire the Perfection of all substantial Beings Assure your self this Love cannot be Female that is to say inconstant which has for the Basis of it a Firmament of Stars such as are your Coelestial Beauties The Affection cannot be corrupted or consum'd which has for the Seat of it the Heaven of your Face and for the Sphere wherein it moves the Light of your Vertue Resolve then not to make me despair of my Contentments while you have reason to hope for all the Satisfaction you can desire for imploying the Ornaments of your Mind in loving me To which I would oblige ye under the pretence of a Debt with which the Fervency of my Soul engages ye to a mutual Correspondence while it destroys itself in adoring ye But I know a divine Object cannot be obliged nor the greatness of your Merit be bound but with a Duty of Charity agreeable to my Torments From that it is that I beg the Cure of my Wounds which as they were inflicted by the Rays of your Beauty so must they be heal'd by the Excess of your Generosity This Letter said Chappel requires an Authentic Testimony to confirm the Truth of what the Lady writes Otherwise it is hard to believe so much Love in a Woman As if the Vice of an unbridl'd Passion reply'd River were not usual in a Woman as well as any other Failing that is proper to the Sex Whoever condemns Love reply'd I gives us marks of more irregular Affections those îdle Notes wherewith our Minds compose the restlesness of our various Thoughts and Wills not better concerting in any other sort of Harmony I understand ye said Grave smiling and I am well aware that while you call Love Harmony you have an Eye upon the Spheres whose Harmony in Heav'n is the most perfect of any other upon Earth But Chappel interrupted their Discourse by opening and reading the following Letter LETTER CXVI Of a Mother that gives Documents to her Daughter 'T was directed to Mrs. T at the Crown Coffee-house near the Blew-Cross in Venice Dear Daughter London Iune 1692. ● Have endur'd your absence since you departed from 〈◊〉 this City in the Company of the Gentleman your ●ervant with a Reinforcement of lucky Hope from ●hence I promis'd my self a great Advancement of ●our Fortunes I assur'd my self that the place where ●ou are is a very good place to vend those Wares ●hich you have to put off The great number of ●raders of your Sex avails not now to bring down ●he price of the Commodity but by the multitude 〈◊〉 Examples to teach the best Rules which 〈◊〉 well observ'd you can never go amiss And ●herefore I cannot but wonder to hear the Affairs 〈◊〉 your Shop go ill knowing you upon other oc●asions to be a Woman of Judgment so well-bred ●nd so well-condition'd that I could not fear but 〈◊〉 all your Imployments would meet with good ●ortune I also lookt upon it as a farther good 〈◊〉 that you were come of a hopeful Stock 〈◊〉 whence your two Sisters and I your Mother 〈◊〉 descended have acquir'd great Reputation 〈◊〉 Applause for deserving in our Profession 〈◊〉 whence I could never suspect that your pro●esses would in the least degenerate I fear me these Prejudices arise from your not observing the Precepts of the Art which ought to be so much the more accurately taken notice of in regard the Conditions of this Trade are variously regulated by several others The Wares which you sell are always the same and therefore it behoves ye to be Industrious to supply the want of that Variety which is the only attractive of humane Content The Methods also which you are to make use of 〈◊〉 your advantage are likewise still the same without any alteration And therefore 't is a difficult thing to satisfie all People while various humours covet some more some less Let it be your care not to be so reserv'd that others may have reason to complain of their Bargaining with you nor so prodigal as to traffic to your loss A moderate Post will be more successful for you it not being convenient for you to be defective in that rigorous strictness with which you would have encounter'd a Man upon your first setting up The making good measure is no Precept for your Trade wherein the more pinching you are the more you will encrease your Gains Be sure to lay open always two Bundles the one of which being publickly laid upon the Stall may serve for ordinary Persons that have but little Money to spend The other you are not to produce but after many Intreaties which assuring you of a covetous and imperuous desire may secure you your own price To great Persons who know the value of the Ware and have where-withal to pay present your Bundle freely for 〈◊〉 the profit will be greater and the Risco less To vulgar People or such as have no Judgment and know not the Price of such Counterband Goods offer such Cloth as uses to lie upon the Stall for shew However let both the one and the other be well kept so that whoever Trafficks with you may not be offended with the sight of nothing but Moths and Worms And therefore you must always keep your Shop clean and neat not so much as suffering a Spider's Web in the Room to accuse ye of Slut● corners Let no Fools or Simpletons scape ye if you find they have Money in their Pockets for they are easily drawn in and coax'd with good words so that you may

Madam how happy are we in so pure and undefil'd a Love by which Souls mingle e'ery minute in the highest extafie of Union without the impeding help if I may use that seeming contradiction of our Bodies Immortal must our Flame be since the immortal part of us is only interested in it The cause of Inconstancy in Common Love is the Body which being of so changeable a nature 't is impossible it should retain any thing long which has the least dependance upon it But the Soul that is still the same must still persevere in the affection it has once made choice of Wonder not at the Expression Madam for our Loves are the effects of Choice not Fancy Virtue and Wit engage us but Beauty and Vice them both frail and fading as the Joys they bring But ours Madam is the Love of Angels sacred Sympathy unites our Souls and mutual Virtues cement our holy Vows not only till Death but even to the next Life of Glory for it being a Native of Heav'n it cannot lose its Being by returning thither but rather improve it to a greater degree than it could attain here oppos'd by the cloggs of gross material bodies for like Fruits transplanted from a warm to a colder Climate 't is less perfect here tho it still retain its form tast and other Excellencies of its Heav'●●● Nature tho not in so exalted a degree Uninterrupted Joy is the Product of our Passion if it merit so gross a Name without any mixture of Pa●n 't is like the Vestal Fire burning without material Fuel whereas the other dyes and is soon extinguish'd if depriv'd of its Fuel Beauty and the auxiliary Bellows of Strifes and petty Squabbles so small and so unhappy is their Pleasure that they can't arrive at or relish it unless they first and often tast of Pain Satiety attends their Success and Quarrels serve for Exercise to gain them a fresh Appetite 'T would be endless to run through all the Advantages we have above them and impertinent to you who are so sensible of them Nor need I caution you how to preserve the Empire you have obtain'd over your Body since you know the Body is a true Coward where it has the mastery being a Tyrant but where 't is overpower'd easily kept in serv●le awe I shall therefore only now subscribe my self Madam Your Admirer and zealous Lover A. James My Life on 't said Chappel this is some antiquated Batchelor whose Sins of his Youth have made him abominate Matrimony Or rather interrupted Brook disabled him from Matrimonial Performances and therefore prudently pursu'd Temple hides his bodily defect under the Mask of Platonic Love And she some super animated Matron said River that has been neglected in a carnal way even by her own Coachman Right assum'd Grave a Woman never forgets the Flesh till her Skin 's turn'd into Buckram by Age. Nor then neither added Winter if she can ●ake it subtile and smooth to some younger Brother by her Fortune This Lady therefore said Summer must be poor as well as old she would never else take up with empty Alms of Passion meer words 'T is well said I she can make a Virtue of Necessity and fly to the Spirit when she can't make use of the Flesh. Platonic Love said Church if we may judge by the Founder's words is not without its secret Heaut●●ust of the Flesh I 'm sure Plato seems to relish the Kiss of Agatho with all the fire of the most amorous Debauchee Right concluded Fountain 't is only a demure Bawd to secret whoring they being the greatest Friends to the Flesh in a Corner who espouse the Spirit so much in the face of the World LETTER LXIV From one beyond Sea expressing his desire of returning to his own native Country 'T was directed to Mr. Gregory at his House in Charles-street Westminster London Honour'd Master Hague June 1692. THE Obligations I have to you engage me to return my Thanks as often as I may without being too chargeable or too troublesome to you I am asham'd to let you know on how ill-deservi●● a Subject you have plac'd all your Favours for must confess I had rather be confin'd to my nati●● low condition in my own Country than have th● Place of Preferment you were so generously plea●● to obtain for me The Splendor of the Court whe● 't is here nor the Civilities of the Natives or m● own Countrymen nay scarce the Advantages ● Interest can make amends for the loss of old E●gland the hopes of seeing which after the Cam●●pagn is over keeps me alive With my Respect● and Duty to my Mistriss and your self I subscrib● my self SIR Your ever oblig'd humble and faithful Servant John Robinson Here 's one said Grave eaten up with the Epidemic Distemper of Mankind The doting adde● Brook on ones own Country Which is better reply'd Temple in my mind than that Contempt 〈◊〉 men shew for the place of their birth The love of one native Country pursu'd River● has such a sw●● ascendant over us that it will not let us forget it 〈◊〉 the greatest plenty nor in the remotest parts of the World True continu'd Fountain and we measure the fulness of our Happiness by the distance or near●ness it sets us in from thence The Pleasures an Grandeur of old Rome were scarce Bribes enough sai●● Church to win the Captives from a desire of the● own barren Country There 's no greater Proof of thi● added Summer than the Inhabitants of some of th● most Northern parts of Norway where one would wo●● 〈◊〉 any of human race should endure to live the inso●●nce of the winds being there so great that it blows way the tops of Houses and Trees up by the Roots at the People chuse rather to live there in Caves like ●easts than to seek some more Hospitable abode Espe●●ally said Chappel since the World is so wide and ● much of the finest Country in the World uninhabited ● some parts of America But pursu'd I this is ●ot so terrible as to live near the Mountains Vesa●ius or Aetna the very reading of the account Pliny 〈◊〉 younger gives of the fiery Inundation in his twen●●eth Letter of his sixth Book to Cornelius Tacitus ●ould make a man have a care of coming within some ●agues of it But this ●ondness of the Country we are ●orn in concluded Winter seems to me a piece of ●igottry since it goes so far beyond what Reasin re●uires and since the whole World is the Country of a ●ise man LETTER LXV From a Coward to his intimate Friend to assist him to gain the Reputation of a man of Courage by parting him in a Duel be must be engag'd in 'T was directed to Mr. at Mr. Herd's near Tunbridge-wells in Kent With care and Speed Dear NED London June 1692. THE confidence I put in you when you read this Letter which is to desire your immediate return to London for I happen'd to be in company last night

Sister of Parmenia they are nearer ally'd in Wit than Blood Right pursu'd Fountain they are so much the same Beauty and Wit are seldom 〈◊〉 said River but in these Sisters inseparable Nay that which is more added Summer Nature spreads her Favours through the whole Sisterhood 'T is pity concluded Church such Excellence should stamp so fair a mark on Complements where she 's so much for Reality her self LETTER LX. From a Friend proffering his Service 'T was directed to Mr. K●ash to be left for him at Man's Coffee-house near Whitehall London SIR Darby June 1692. HEre is a Discourse that you have a Design to make your address to Sir Roger's Daughter If you have any such Thoughts I desire you would lay your Comman● upon me who by my intimacy with him can make an easie access to her My Kindness for you and the memory of the Obligations I have had to your Father makes me take hold of the first opportunity of desiring thus to satisfie you of the Gratitude and Friendship of SIR Your humble Servant J. Green I find said Temple there is still some Gratitude in the World Few remember a past Benefit said I or depend much upon the future the present Advantage is the most charming to the major part of Mankind ' Ti● rare indeed said Winter we meet with a Return when we desire it But here assum'd Church 't is offer'd before ask'd But that which should render it the more acceptable in Reason pursu'd Brook will perhaps make it neglected The singularity of it added River will make one suspect the Sincerity of the Proffer As 't is Imprudence said Grave blindly to follow Advice without bringing it to the test of our Reason So assum'd Summer 't is not Wisdom presently to accept of a proffer'd Kindn●ss Because pursu'd Fountain Self-interest is generally so predominant that there are few in their Advice and Service have not regard to it But perhaps co●cluded Chappel this Gentleman like Sir Jolly Jumble has so particular a delight in bringing Couples together that he makes his Gratitude but the Pimp to his Lea●hery of procuring We generally choosing our Virtues a● they agree with our over-ruling Vices LETTER LXI To a false Friend 'T was directed to Mr. Jones to be left for him at the Rose Tavern near Temple●Bar SIR Monmouth June 1692. AS I did not expect so much foul-dealing from you so it the more surpriz'd me when I understood how much you had oppos'd my Interest in the very Affair you pretended to negotiate for me your Obligations your Oaths and Protestations I find are soon forgot which shall learn me for the future to confide in no man that makes such wondrous Professions since I have had such a dear Error in paying for the knowledge of your perfidiousness R. Morgan This Gentleman's Wisdom said Temple like that of most young men is bought at his own expence Young or old return'd Winter we often by our Vnskilfulness in Men cherish a Snake in our Bosom And pour our Favours on those added Church who on the first opportunity to serve their own separate Interest turn the Benefit against the Benefactor This said Grave is too often the Fate of Princes who make Favourites rather by Fancy than the Merits of the Person Or added I the Dictates of their own Reason We ought certainly said Summer if we would not repent of our Actions to no purpose never to let it be in any man's power to betray our Interest At least assum'd Chappel by our over-confidence in him Then you would said Fountain destroy all Friendship No reply'd River the Practise of the World now renders that you call Friendship a mee● Notion and Theory Right concluded Brook for Interest is the Cement of Friendship and since 't is possible that may divide the dearest 't is Prudence to secure ones self by a cautious distrust LETTER LXII From an Author to his Bookseller haggling for more Copy-mony 'T was directed to Mr. at the Golden Ball in Cornhil London SIR Richmond June 1692. YOU were so hard with me that tho I undertook this first part at your rate because I both wanted business and Mony yet I must needs tell you that I cannot go on with the Undertaking unless you are a little more generous for this will scarce find me Bread whilst I am writing it but I leave it to your own Reason to think whether a little more Copy-mony would not turn for your own advantage for the greater Encouragement I have the more Pa●ns I shall take and the more cause I shall have to do so I therefore leave it to your consideration who am Your Friend and Servant J. S. This Author said I is not well vers'd in his Profession since he thinks to get any thing from the generosity of a Bookseller He might as well have left it pursu'd Chappel to the generosity of an Vsurer Right added River a Bargain is a Bargain with them And tho Necessity oblige the Author continu'd Winter to comply with their hard Agreement yet they 'l ne'r have regard to that tho he live upon a clov● of Garlick like a Spanish Don. They make no distinction said Brook betwixt a man of Parts and Learning and one that in spight of Education and Nature assumes the Name of Author And will continued Temple murder a good subject like a Bravo of Sence for a George Apostates added Church from the honest Mechanics to be a plague to M●n of Sence Both Authors and Readers plague pursu'd Fountain and the Bookseller's Tool Who had rather st●rveat the foot of Par●assus said Summer than get Mony in their natural station I find concluded Grave that all a Man's Study at School and at the Vniversity and all the Gifts of Nature besides only qualifies him for a Slave to the Booksellers if Fortune be wanting LETTER LXIII From an Admirer of Platonic Love 'T was directed to Madam Field to be left at Mr. Williams's House near Deal in Kent Honour'd Madam London June 1692. 'T IS with a great deal of regret I have been thus long kept in this busie sensless Town so 〈◊〉 from the happy conversation of a Lady of your Perfections but Madam as our Souls I 'm confident meet when we sleep and enjoy each other so when we wake methinks we should employ our Thoughts about each other when we are not contemplating Virtue which I envy you for the hurry and noise of this place deprives me of those sedate Thoughts your agreeable Converse and the calm of a Country Retreat us'd to inspire The mistaken World condemns your Sex for want of Judgment and of being govern'd by the blind Dictamens of your unruly and criminal Passions but I that have the honour to know you dear Lady find their ill-natur'd Error in fixing the Crime of a few on the whole Sex but let these Self-esteemers shew me two of the Philosophers regular as You in their Affections and Lives except the divine Plato Ah